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Of the 33 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 2 and opposition of 1 with 3 being of interest.
Of the 48 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 14 and opposition of 4 with 3 being of interest.

Position	Bill	Title	Committee	Day	Time	Room	State Analysis
Support	HB1043	relative to employer discretion in offering minimum payment options to employees.	Commerce	Tue 4/14	10:25 AM	SH Room 100	This bill allows employers to establish their own pay policies for employees reporting to work, making the statutory minimum pay requirement applicable only when no alternative company policy exists.
Of Interest	SB661	relative to pooled risk management programs.	Commerce and Consumer Affairs	Tue 4/14	1:15 PM	GP Room 229	This bill: I. Enables the secretary of state to require abatement of insufficient assets or to seek receivership, if necessary, of a pooled risk management program. II. Requires assessment of each participating member of the pooled risk management program on a pro rata basis to satisfy the amount of the deficiency. III. Requires the governing board of the pooled risk management program to use a standard of care, diligence, prudence, and skill in the management of the program. IV. Provides for the assessment of a pooled risk management program’s participating members, if required, after an actuarial calculation. V. Provides for contingency reserve standards depending on the pooled risk management programs line of coverage and requiring a contingency reserve replenishment if a program’s contingency reserves fall below the minimum level. VI. Requires pooled risk management programs to make certain public disclosures to prospective and actual member political subdivisions. VII. Makes technical corrections
Support	HB1256	removing the authority of the state librarian to award scholarships to students attending graduate library schools.	Education	Tue 4/14	9:35 AM	SL Room Map Room	This bill removes the authority of the state librarian to award scholarships to qualified persons to attend a graduate library school accredited by the American Library Association.
Support	HB1526	relative to the adopting of a municipal budget committee and electing members thereof.	Election Law and Municipal Affairs	Tue 4/14	10:00 AM	SH Room 122-123	This bill: I. Modifies the procedure for adopting, rescinding, and electing a municipal budget committee. II. Modifies the time frame for the appointment of initial members of a cooperative school district budget committee.
Support	HB1542	(Second New Title) directing alternative compliance payments to the renewable energy fund to be refunded to ratepayers.	Energy and Natural Resources	Tue 4/14	9:10 AM	SH Room 103	This bill provides that alternative compliance payments to the renewable energy fund under RSA 362-F:10, II shall be refunded to ratepayers.
Support	HB1206	clarifying the equity jurisdiction of the judicial branch family division.	Judiciary	Tue 4/14	1:15 PM	SH Room 100	This bill clarifies the equity jurisdiction of the judicial branch family division (now the circuit court, family division).
Oppose	HB1361	relative to the procedure concerning search warrant inventories.	Judiciary	Tue 4/14	1:25 PM	SH Room 100	This bill modifies the process for creating an inventory concerning the execution of a search warrant. This bill is a request of the department of safety.
Support	HB1422	relative to the time to petition for a new trial.	Judiciary	Tue 4/14	1:35 PM	SH Room 100	This bill allows additional time to petition for a new trial in certain circumstances.
Support	HB1793	prohibiting public colleges and universities from regulating the possession or carrying of firearms and non-lethal weapons on campus.	Judiciary	Tue 4/14	1:45 PM	SH Room 100	This bill: I. Prohibits public colleges and universities from regulating the possession or carrying of firearms and non-lethal weapons on campus. II. Allows persons aggrieved by public colleges or universities that implement such regulations to sue such institutions for damages and injunctive relief.
Support	SB88	prohibiting state government entities from including specified terms related to labor organization agreements in construction related contracts and grants.	Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services	Tue 4/14	10:15 AM	GP Room 159	This bill prohibits state entities from including specified terms related to labor organization agreements in construction related contracts and grants.
Oppose	SB559	reducing the minimum allowable speed limit on locally controlled roads.	Transportation	Tue 4/14	10:40 AM	GP Room 234	This bill reduces the minimum speed limits that local authorities may set in certain districts from 25 miles per hour to 20 miles per hour, based on engineering or traffic investigations.
Support	HB1421	modifying title exemptions for motor vehicles manufactured before the year 2000.	Transportation	Tue 4/14	1:00 PM	SH Room 122-123	This bill exempts any motor vehicle that is at least 20 years old from the requirement to obtain a certificate of title, except for heavy trucks and truck-tractors with a gross vehicle weight over 18,000 pounds. This exemption applies on a rolling basis as vehicles reach 20 years of age. This bill also allows a person who owns a title-exempt vehicle the ability to voluntarily request a title.
Support	HB1549	establishing that titles, bills of sale, and identification documents are required only at initial registration or transfer of ownership.	Transportation	Tue 4/14	1:20 PM	SH Room 122-123	This bill limits the requirement to present ownership and identification documents to the initial registration or transfer of a vehicle and affirms that prior registration is sufficient for renewal.
Of Interest	HB1252	(New Title) requiring the department of safety to only administer tests for commercial driver’s licenses in English and prohibiting the assistance of an interpreter during such tests.	Transportation	Tue 4/14	1:40 PM	SH Room 122-123	This bill: I. Codifies the recent enforcement of a federal requirement that the administration of the skills test for commercial driver’s licenses only be conducted in English and that interpreters are not permitted for the administration of the skills test. II. Extends the same requirements for the administration of the knowledge test for commercial driver’s licenses. III. Requires commercial driver’s licensees of the past 5 years who previously satisfied the knowledge or skills test requirement through testing in a language other than English or with the assistance of an interpreter to pass such examinations in English and without the assistance of an interpreter. IV. Directs the department of safety to adopt rules regarding the requirement and to provide notice and an opportunity for hearing to current licensees required to pass an examination in English in order to maintain their license. V. Provides an exemption for the use of interpreters for the knowledge and skills test where such individual or
Support	SB504	relative to the practice of pharmacy and the dispensing of certain medications by pharmacists.	Executive Departments and Administration	Wed 4/15	1:10 PM	GP Room 231	This bill: I. Authorizes the dispensing of up to a 30-day supply of noncontrolled oral anti-cancer medication by a licensed health care professional legally authorized to prescribe and administer medications to a patient under a provider’s care or supervision subject to certain conditions. II. Amends the display requirements for certain licenses and permits. III. Authorizes licensed advanced pharmacy technicians to engage in remote processing. IV. Removes the requirement that a pharmacist’s name or initials be on a label affixed to any controlled drug or prescription issued. V. Amends the definition of the “practice of pharmacy.” VI. Removes certain authority of the board of pharmacy with respect to the regulation of collaborative pharmacy practice agreements. VII. Eliminates any examination requirement for licensure as an advanced pharmacy technician. VIII. Prohibits the pharmacy board from testing applicants on pharmacy jurisprudence or law.
Support	HB1378	relative to parental access to a minor child’s electronic medical records.	Health and Human Services	Wed 4/15	9:30 AM	SH Room 100	This bill provides parents of minor children full access to their minor children’s medical record except under certain circumstances.
Support	HB360	(New Title) prohibiting public schools from performing surgical procedures or prescribing pharmaceutical drugs.	Health and Human Services	Wed 4/15	9:45 AM	SH Room 100	This bill prohibits public schools from performing surgical procedures or prescribing pharmaceutical drugs.
Support	HB1335	requiring health care providers to disclose to patients indirect financial incentives received by the provider.	Health and Human Services	Wed 4/15	10:00 AM	SH Room 100	This bill requires a physician who receives compensation exceeding $5,000 or more as the result of a preferential promotion to disclose this information to the patient prior to prescribing any treatment associated with the source of the promotion.
Of Interest	SB570	(New Title) relative to legislative ethics.	Legislative Administration	Wed 4/15	10:00 AM	GP Room 234	This bill adds definitions related to determining conflicts of interests for legislators and adds additional budget-related bills, subject to certain limitations, to the list of exceptions to the recusal requirements.
Oppose	HB1477	relative to the permitting and regulation of anchored seasonal floating platforms on public waters.	Ways and Means	Wed 4/15	9:45 AM	SH Room 122-123	This bill restricts anchored seasonal platforms on public waters to adjacent shorefront property owners, requires permits with identification and a $50 fee, exempts certain government and conservation uses, and imposes fines for noncompliance.
Oppose	HB1602	creating a safe battery recycling stewardship program.	Ways and Means	Wed 4/15	10:00 AM	SH Room 122-123	This bill establishes a statewide battery stewardship program that requires safe collection, recycling, and management of covered batteries and battery-containing products, administered through producer participation and oversight by the department of environmental services.
Of Interest	SB498	relative to children’s mental health services for persons 18 years of age and younger.	Commerce and Consumer Affairs	Thu 4/16	1:30 PM	GP Room 229	This bill establishes the New Hampshire children’s behavioral health association for the purpose of collecting assessments to fund payments to care management entities for the provision of childhood behavioral health services. The association is authorized to collect assessments from insurance carriers, stop loss carriers, and third-party administrators for fully insured and self-funded health plans. The assessment base would include covered lives in the state employee health plan, as well as pooled risk management programs under RSA 5-b. The funds provided for this purpose would be deposited in a dedicated fund administered by the insurance commissioner.
Oppose	HB215	requiring a landfill permit applicant to submit a report listing potential harms and benefits of the project.	Energy and Natural Resources	Thu 4/16	1:10 PM	SH Room 103	This bill requires a landfill permit applicant to submit a report listing potential harms and benefits of the project and requires the department of environmental services to make a determination that the landfill is a net public benefit.
Of Interest	HB1138	limiting the placement of out-of-state waste going into New Hampshire landfills.	Energy and Natural Resources	Thu 4/16	1:20 PM	SH Room 103	This bill limits the placement of out-of-state waste in New Hampshire landfills.
Support	HB1022	relative to religious exemption from immunization requirements.	Health and Human Services	Thu 4/16	1:00 PM	SH Room 100	This bill specifies the form for religious exemption from childhood immunization requirements.
Of Interest	HB1071	repealing immunity afforded health care facilities when following directives adopted in response to the COVID-19 state of emergency.	Health and Human Services	Thu 4/16	1:15 PM	SH Room 100	This bill repeals immunity afforded health care facilities when following directives adopted in response to the COVID-19 state of emergency.
Support	HB1219	relative to immunization requirements in foster family homes.	Health and Human Services	Thu 4/16	1:30 PM	SH Room 100	This bill provides that vaccination requirements for adults residing in foster homes shall not exceed the vaccination requirements of RSA 141-C:20-a, either in type of vaccination, quality of doses, or authorization for exemption.